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> Yeah, except 10 years at certain companies could teach you less than 6months to 1 year at one company that's actually doing it right. Is it common for programmers that have been …

Consider smartness as "what you can do with what you know," while experience is "what you know"--then, what follows is that having more experience makes up for not being as clever.…

Agreed--being able to define functions for control flow & data transformation seemed functional enough (compared to having to rely on primitive reserved words). Of course, even the…

A simple thing is to figure out if you can restrict the runtime environment during development (available memory, clock speed, network speed, etc), and develop to that. The nice si…

Well, Publix is employee owned, does that count? Comparing the wikipedia sidebar shows Publix with more stores, revenue, and over twice the number of employees. https://en.wikipedi…

> Our raw mental capabilities may have always been the same, but how smart we are also depends on our learning. FWIW, I tend to equate "smart" with "cleverness," as a separate meas…

> ...but why did they do it like this? ...because people are smart. People have _always_ been smart, it's one of the defining attributes of humanity. It strikes me oddly (not speci…

> My brain doesn't "point" at something in Vi motions... In emacs there's a mode called ace jumping. Essentially, it lets you pinpoint exactly on screen where you want to move the …

> I imagine piping in bash feels similar... It is. Piping is akin to an untyped subset of working with Scala's collections, and there's a similar workflow between the two, e.g.: In…

Yeah, but where are you going to get the skills of interacting with strangers? Eliminating baseball practice doesn't seem like a way to encourage more games :/

> So while our system would be able to say "I have seen person 1234 at locations 4,7,9,11 on dates x,y,x" we had absolutely no way of knowing who 1234 was or anything about them...…

>> It seems like there's a fine line between being clever and being morally bankrupt. Actions can only be evaluated as moral/immoral/amoral when you've taken the time to define a s…

>> Why "combat" the impact of robots? For an outside consideration, take the view outlined in this "Rules for Rulers" video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs )--especia…

>> ...a random human's odds of being eaten by a figurative grue monotonically increase as you go backwards in time. Humans don't live alone in the woods--not now, not 5,000 years a…

Sure, at a prior job we passed out hardcopies of a side-by-side diff before scheduling a peer review (including only the affected methods/functions). No syntax highlighting, but it…

>> Imagine most of your income comes from Adsense, how would you feel about revealing something as disturbing as google involved in a case of corruption in the european parliament?…

Let's disregard the blackmail aspect of nothing-to-hide. Consider that lobbyists & bureaucrats now have the capability (prevented only by policy) to snoop the past and present comm…

"The only thing preventing an Apache helicopter from firing on schoolchildren under order of the president.... is policy" A better method of prevention would be to not build Apache…

Moreover, all these calculations of how much energy is required to grow meat fall flat when you consider grass-fed beef & pastured chickens (a la Saladin); unlike corn-fed beef, gr…

Different nutrients are processed differently by the body, fully in line with thermodynamics. Take 100 Calories of sawdust (cellulose). If you eat this, how many calories did you c…

Of course I was simply addressing the sustainability comment, not the economics involved. Regarding economics, I suppose the unanswered question is how would a reallocation (or red…

I read GCBC about two months ago; although I've been interested in health & nutrition for several years now, it's amazing that I never understood how badly science has been mistrea…

One of the points Taubes makes in his GCBC book (which is phenomenal, by the way), is that obesity is a dysfunction of excess adipose tissue (fat), not merely a problem of excess w…

Regarding the environmental impact and sustainability: http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html... Here's another take: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetar…